The green robot's "stomach" is smaller than a thimble. Especially on devices with little memory. I fed him a dozen or two super-mega-needed programs - and the place ran out. But... many of us have the opportunity to install a second “stomach” in the gadget and continue feeding.
Today we'll talk about transferring applications from internal memory to an SD card in Android smartphones and tablets.
Which apps can be transferred and which ones can't?
Among mobile applications There are those that can be transferred between drives and those that cannot. When you transfer a program to external media, some components remain in the same place - in the permanent memory of the device.
If the program is relatively autonomous and not too fussy in terms of the location of files and data, it will remain functional. And if it is deeply rooted in the operating system, when the work of other structures depends on it, the transfer can end disastrously - not only this program will stop working, but also everything that interacts with it. For this reason, you should absolutely not try to move system applications.
The ability to transfer third-party products to microSD varies. It depends on whether the program author has provided for this possibility. They don’t write about this in the characteristics - everything is learned experimentally, but such experiments do not threaten serious consequences. If after transferring the program does not work, it is enough to return it to its place or reinstall it into the device’s memory.
Moving by system means
Modern versions of Android, starting from 6.0, support transfer software on cards without additional funds. They use a micro SD card as an extension of the internal storage, and the movement function is built into the firmware.
To transfer a program from the memory of a smartphone or tablet to a card in Android 6.0 and higher, do the following:
- Open system settings and go to " Device» – « Applications».
- Open the menu with a short touch (properties section) the desired program.
- Tap " Storage", then " Change».
- In the window " Changing storage location» select « Memory card».
The instructions are applicable to devices of many brands and models, but adjusted for individual characteristics. Some manufacturers, for example, Samsung, instead of " Storage"You need to go to the section " Memory" Others have a button Move toSD" is located in the menu of applications that support this function. Well, others... simply didn’t bother and refused to implement the transfer function into the firmware of their devices.
The ability to transfer applications to SD cards “without intermediaries” also exists in very old versions of Android - 2.2 and lower, and everything that appeared later - up to the sixth version - requires third-party tools, which will be discussed further.
Mobile software for moving applications to SD
AppMgr III
How to transfer files from a computer to a mobile device or vice versa? Today, resolving this issue is unlikely to be a problem for almost every user, but this was not always the case.
Today the situation has changed dramatically, and not least thanks to the active development of mobile operating systems. iOS, Android, Windows Phone- these platforms forced global manufacturers of equipment and electronics to seriously think about improving communications between various types computer and mobile devices. And today you can set up a connection between a PC and a phone, smartphone, or tablet in a much larger number of ways - USB cables with universal connectors or adapters, special software for transferring data via wireless networks or over the Internet, cloud data storage services, etc. Yes even social media You can safely use it as a kind of web environment where you can store your photos, videos and music.
But, in more detail: below we will look at 5 ways to transfer data from a PC to mobile or portable devices.
1. USB cable
A USB cable (Data cable) is the easiest way to connect a mobile device to a computer. A USB cable is usually included with any mobile phone, smartphone or tablet. Today, even if you purchased a used smartphone or tablet at a pawnshop without the delivery items, in an online store or at any point of sale of computer or mobile technology You can purchase a USB cable that fits the connector on your device. This could be a “Mini-USB to USB” cable, which will fit most of the latest models of smartphones and tablets, as well as other input configurations for specific connectors of device models from specific manufacturers. Fortunately, the Chinese industry never ceases to amaze us - for example, for a relatively small fee you can even purchase a universal USB cable, where one input is regular USB, and at the other end there are several inputs - mini-USB, Nokia, Samsung, iPhone, iPad, HTC, LG, etc.
To connect mobile device You just need to connect them to your computer with a USB cable. In most cases, you don’t even need any drivers: for example, Windows OS (updated versions, of course) contains in its database drivers for various externally connected mobile devices and identifies them as normal removable media- like a flash drive. But if you have drivers from the manufacturer of your smartphone or tablet, it would be a good idea to install them on your computer; this can slightly speed up the data transfer speed.
You can work with a mobile device connected to your computer in the same way as with a flash drive: copy files to your PC and paste them into the removable media explorer window, or simply drag and drop files.
2. Card reader
A card reader - a special device for reading SD and MicroSD memory cards - is another technical masterpiece made by Chinese craftsmen that will not put a dent in your pocket. But you should resort to this method of transferring data between a PC and a mobile device only when a USB cable for your phone model is not included in the package and is quite difficult to find. The reason for this is purely practical - it is inconvenient to remove MicroSD cards from the slot in a phone, smartphone or tablet. Often this requires the use of some sharp objects to remove the tight-fitting and miniature plug. Nevertheless, this is the most universal method of data transfer, since almost all mobile and portable devices are equipped with MicroSD cards today.
Connecting the card reader to a PC is not difficult: remove it from your mobile device microSD card, place it in the card reader, and connect the latter to the PC. As in the previous case, the computer will recognize the card reader as a removable storage device; the principle of working with data is the same.
If without the implemented Bluetooth technology today it is difficult to find some rare mobile phone, then with computers everything is exactly the opposite - only modern computer models have a built-in bluetooth module, and most often these are functional monoblocks. But manufacturers often integrate Bluetooth into functional models of laptops and netbooks. If you want to transfer files from just such a laptop or netbook to your phone, smartphone or tablet, you just need to turn on the Bluetooth option on both devices, place them at a short distance from each other, establish a connection and enable file transfer.
If you own a regular PC, purchase an additional external bluetooth, connected via USB, is not worth it just for this purpose. Firstly, large files can be transferred much longer over a Bluetooth connection than over a wire; secondly, external Bluetooth requires system settings. Therefore, if Bluetooth is not pre-installed on your computer, it is better to purchase a universal USB cable or consider the data transfer methods below.
If you are the owner of a smartphone or tablet Android based, you will be able to transfer files via a direct Wi-Fi connection without an Internet connection. Naturally, your computer must also be equipped Wi-Fi module. Therefore, as we see, this method of data transfer can be used if you plan to periodically transfer data to your mobile device from a laptop whose assembly model provides for integration with Wi-Fi. As a rule, this is most of the modern models of laptops and netbooks; only rare ones are sold without Wi-Fi today budget models. This method of transferring data to an Android device is also suitable for you if you are the proud owner of a functional all-in-one with built-in Wi-Fi.
So, there are two devices with a Wi-Fi module, then you will need to download to Google Play market there is a special application for Android - “Software Dada Cable”. As we can see from the name of the application, it is designed to software provide the user with a replacement physical USB cable. The application uses direct data transfer between devices Wi-Fi connection without resorting to any external networks. So the owners of megabyte tariff plans Internet users can be calm - there will be no access to the Internet, there will be no cash charges from the provider.
The biggest advantage of the Software Dada Cable application is its minimalism and ease of use. Download and install the “Software Dada Cable” application. Click the “Start Service” button and you will see the IP address of your Android device on the screen - “ftp://192.168.ХХХХ...”. Enter this address in address bar your web browser on your computer or establish an ftp connection using your favorite file manager. For example, in Total Commander This is the “FTP” tab, then the “Connect to FTP server” menu.
Next, either in the browser window or in the file manager window, you will see the files of your Android device in the same way as it would be with a wired connection via a USB cable. Transfer files from your computer to your mobile device by copying and pasting, dragging and dropping, or using the file manager's function buttons.
5. Cloud Internet services
SkyDrive, Dropbox, Yandex.Disk, Google Drive, 4Sync is the most popular cloud services, you can choose any other cloud storage, which will attract you more with its functionality. To use the capabilities of the cloud service, you just need to go through a simple registration and familiarize yourself with the capabilities of the resource.
You can work with cloud services using the web interface from a browser, but it is much easier to do this using their special clients, especially when it comes to a mobile device. You can download desktop programs for Windows, Mackintosh or Linux from the cloud services themselves, and client applications for Android, iOS, Windows Phone or other mobile platforms, in addition to cloud services, also in specialized online stores for these platforms such as Google Play Store, App Store or Windows Phone Store. Cloud service spaces on your computer can also be connected as usual system disk(for example, in Windows this is “My Computer” - then “Connect network drive") or connect to them via FTP through file managers (Total Commander, FAR manager, etc.).
The data exchange itself is very simple: from your computer you transfer the necessary files to cloud service, and from a mobile device, either play this file online if there is an Internet connection, or simply download the file to a memory card to use the file regardless of the Internet.
Imagine that the internal memory of your device is full and you urgently need to free it up. If you don't want to delete files or folders, you can transfer some of them to a memory card. The transfer itself will be similar to the case with . Please note that you cannot transfer installed applications this way - only files and folders.
First of all you will need file manager. We use ES Explorer, you can use any other, including the one installed on your device.
Launch the file manager and select a partition. We have two sections: the internal memory of the device and the memory card. If you need to transfer files from the main memory to a memory card, then you need to go to the main memory section.
Have you entered the section? Amazing. Let's say you need to move a music folder. Select the Music folder, tap on it and hold until a check mark appears on the folder. Then click on the “Copy” or “Cut” button, depending on what you need to do.
The next step is to go to the memory card section and click on the “Insert” button.
The files are being transferred, this may take some time.
Voila, the folder has been transferred.
In exactly the same way, you can transfer any other file or folder (except installed applications). As you can see, nothing complicated.
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Many Android users are familiar with the problem of insufficient internal memory on their phone or tablet. One of the main ways to free it up is to transfer games and applications to a memory card, of course, if you have one.
However, having decided to transfer the game to an SD card, many encounter various difficulties. In this article we’ll try to figure out what’s what and look at a couple useful applications to transfer data to Android.
To begin with, it is worth noting that transferring applications to a memory card can be done without third party applications, built-in tools. But the possibility of transferring depends on each specific application. Some developers block this feature, apparently for the reason that internal memory provides better performance than an SD card.
In order to check whether an application can be transferred to a memory card, open the “Applications” item in the system settings and see if the “Move to SD card” button is active.
If the button is active, then the application supports transfer; if not, or the button is absent altogether, then transfer is not supported.
Transferring applications using AppMgr Pro III
More in a convenient way transferring applications is a special application AppMgr Pro III (Formerly App 2 SD), which, in addition to transferring applications, has several more useful functions:
- Hide an application in the application menu
- Notification that application installation is complete
- Clear cache with one tap
The main advantage of AppMgr Pro III is that it automatically sorts applications based on location. This sorting is done in the form of tabs:
- On phone – applications located in the phone’s memory, and supporting transfer to a memory card
- On SD card – applications already moved to the SD card
- Phone only – applications that do not support transfer
Transfer cache to memory card
If the first method doesn't work. (And he is in the last Android versions does not work)
The methods described above are good, but, as already mentioned, they do not always work, and in addition, they leave a cache in the internal memory, which often takes up much more than the application itself. The FolderMount application, unlike AppMgr Pro III, allows you to move not the application itself, but its cache, to a memory card. For this program to function you will need root rights, if you don’t know what it is – and how to get it.
Transferring the cache is done in a few simple steps:
- Launch the application and click on the “+” icon in the upper right corner
- In the menu that opens, in the “Name” column, specify the name of the application whose cache you want to transfer
- In the “Source” column, specify the folder with the game cache, which is located in Android/obb/ your folder with the name of the application
- In the “Destination” column, select the folder on the external SD card where you want to transfer the cache
- After everything is filled out, click on the checkmark at the top right and then on the “pin” opposite the name you gave in the first paragraph.
Once the data transfer is complete, the “pin” will turn green. After this you can use the application
During use Android smartphone files inevitably accumulate in his memory. Over time, there are so many of these files that they take up all the free space and the user is faced with a lack of free space when installing applications or downloading new files.
This problem can be partially solved by moving files to a memory card. Such user files how photos and videos can be painlessly transferred to a memory card and thereby free up some space in the internal memory of your smartphone.
In order to move files from internal memory to a memory card, you must first install a file manager. Any file manager will be suitable for this task, but it is better to choose one that clearly identifies the device’s internal memory and memory card. For example, such a function is available in the application.
Install this file manager and launch it on your Android smartphone. Once launched, you will see two folders: “Device” and “SD Card”. The “Device” folder is the internal memory of your Android smartphone. Open this folder and find there the files that you would like to move to the SD memory card.
Let's say you find a file that you want to move to your memory card.
In order to perform the file transfer operation, you need to check the box next to the desired file and click on the “Move” button, which is located in the lower left corner of the screen.
After this, the “Cancel” and “Paste” buttons will appear at the bottom of the screen. The “Cancel” button cancels the transfer of files, and the “Insert” button transfers the previously selected files to the folder that is currently open.
Now you need to click on the “Home” button in the upper left corner of the program. So you will move to home screen file manager.
Then you need to go to the SD memory card. To do this, click on the “SD card” folder.
After this, on the memory card you need to open the folder into which you want to move the files and click on the “Insert” button.
After this, the selected files will be moved from the internal memory of the smartphone to the SD memory card.
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